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Halfway To Heaven

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Author:   Robin Bruce Lockhart
Publisher:   Liturgical Press
Imprint:   Liturgical Press
Volume:   186
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.284kg
ISBN:  

9780879077860

ISBN 10:   0879077867
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   01 November 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations   ix Author's Note to the New Edition   xi Introduction   xiii PART ONE   I  Patres Nostri   3   II  The Call of the Desert   12   III  The Recluse in Europe   21   IV  John Cassian, Tower of David   24 PART TWO   V  St Bruno, Founder of the Carthusians   31   VI  From St Bruno to the Reformation   37   VII  From the Reformation to the Twentieth Century   47   VIII  Life in a Charterhouse: The Fathers   55   IX  Life in a Charterhouse: The Brothers   62   X  The Carthusian Nuns   67   XI  Who Joins the Carthusians and How   74   XII  La Grande Chartreuse   84   XIII  Offspring of La Grande Chartreuse   91   XIV  A Charterhouse in the New World   105   XV  The Carthusian Order: Organisation and Management   110   XVI   Carthusian Spirituality: A Summary   120 PART THREE   XVII  Contemplation for All   131   XVIII Wisdom Beyond Understanding   142 APPENDICES   1  Pope John Paul II's Message to the Carthusians on their 900th Anniversary   153   2  Timetable of a Day in the Life of a Carthusian Father   158   3  The Charterhouses in 1999   160   4  Bibliography and Further Reading   162 Index   166

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The author has been given an unprecedented aceess to archives and books unknown to the outside world. Mr Bruce Lockhart's splendid book will hopefully bring this knowledge to a wide public. . . Halfway to Heaven is a sublime and gripping read.Catholic Herald

Author Information

Robin Bruce Lockhart (1920-2008) was a writer and retired newspaper executive. He was also the editor of Listening to Silence: An Anthology of Carthusian Writings.

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